More Third-Worldist hip-hop. Slight Trotskyist slant at the very beginning that you should be wary of, but it moves pretty quickly towards talking about the Third World oppressed & exploited. Includes praise for Marx, Lenin and lyrics taken directly from Mao.

The New York Times – At War From the Front Lines
For anyone wondering why it took President Obama three months to decide on a strategy for Afghanistan, a look at these military schematics uncovered by NBC’s Richard Engel might help explain the weeks of deliberation that went into the plan. The material outlines the military’s counterinsurgency, or COIN, strategy.

The maps, which look like something Cy Twombly might put together on a spirograph, make it plain that whatever the timeline for deployment and withdrawal, there appears to be no straight line to victory in Afghanistan.

Politics Are Over would like to offer an alternative plan of action, AmeriKKKa!